"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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> Icono Clast wrote:
>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>> Icono Clast wrote:
>>>> J. Clarke wrote:
>>>>> At 50 MPH that's 50 hours of on the road time.
>>>> Yes, ROAD time, not DRIVING time!
>>>
>>> If you're not in the car with the car in gear and the engine
>>> running you're not driving.
>>
>> But you're still spending time on The Road.
>
> No, you're spending time adjacent to the road.
>
>>>> If I drive 80mph for 12 hours to end the day three hundred miles
>>>> from where I started, I've averaged 50mph.
>>>
>>> No, you've averaged 80 mph.
>>
>> We disagree.
>
> Disagree all you want to. You seem to be assuming that one _must_ spend
> 2/3 of one's day goofing off.
Yeah, right. Sleeping, eating and shitting are goofing off. Uh, huh.
BZZZZZZ. Thanks for playing. Move along, now.
>
>>>> Why? Because I stopped to look at every historical monument,
>>>> drove the main streets and visited the main square of every
>>>> little town; I provided myself and my ride with fuel and took
>>>> some time to expel the waste products from my fueling, etc.
>>>
>>> Then you didn't drive 80 mph for 12 hours. You drove 80 mph for 3
>>> hours 45 minutes and spent 8 hours 15 minutes sightseeing.
>>
>> True. I travelled three hundred miles in a twelve hour day thus the
>> average of 50mph.
>
> Which has zip all to do with anything since most of your time was spent
> goofing off, not driving. If somebody driving a bus or an 18-wheeler
> measured driving time like you do then he'd be very quickly unemployed.
>
>> "How far is it to Chicago?" I asked as we started from Minneapolis.
>> "Seven hours." "How far is it to Chicago?" I repeated. "Seven hours"
>> repeated he. "How far is it to Chicago?" I reäsked and he finally
>> answered my question. "So we'll be there around 6:15, just in time
>> for dinner" and we were at 6:20, about nine hours later. No, I didn't
>> know we were going to stop for lunch, a bit of sight-seeing, and to
>> feed the car. But I know how to estimate how long it should take to
>> get from one place to another.
>
> So how much sightseeing did you do on the way to Chicago?
>
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